So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson's death that the computers running Google's news section interpreted the fusillade of "Michael Jackson" requests as an automated attack from about 5:40 p.m. through 6:15 p.m.
As a defense mechanism, Google's news section responded to requests for information about Michael Jackson with squiggly letters known as a "captcha." Just as online ticket buyers regularly do to complete their purchases, the Michael Jackson searchers had to enter the letters correctly to see Google's new results.
Yeah, I heard the news caused several large news sites problems. Didn't know that about Google News though. Wonder how many requests they see before putting up a CAPTCHA.
I'm vaguely acquainted with some of the Sony Web site guys (they use Drupal) and apparently it's all hands on deck there.
Yeah, that was a huge traffic for the Internet World...
Even in the News, it was soaring in the air. I wonder when is the second day for such a news...
That day, I just decided to stop surfing the net, every site for me is so slow.
Want to join the discussion? Create an account or log in if you already have one. Joining is fast, free and painless! We’ll even whisk you back here when you’ve finished.
Greg K posted this at 15:28 — 26th June 2009.
He has: 2,145 posts
Joined: Nov 2003
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31566668/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_...
JeevesBond posted this at 07:58 — 27th June 2009.
He has: 3,956 posts
Joined: Jun 2002
Yeah, I heard the news caused several large news sites problems. Didn't know that about Google News though. Wonder how many requests they see before putting up a CAPTCHA.
I'm vaguely acquainted with some of the Sony Web site guys (they use Drupal) and apparently it's all hands on deck there.
a Padded Cell our articles site!
neonle posted this at 21:56 — 27th June 2009.
They have: 7 posts
Joined: Jun 2009
All the search engines are very much affected by this news..
I should say these sites escaped from crashing
Daddyoh posted this at 16:38 — 28th June 2009.
They have: 1 posts
Joined: Jun 2009
I agree..I was updating my Blog at the time and everything was extremely slow including google and Twitter!
Daddyoh
{{link removed - please use your signature for links}}
webdesigner posted this at 02:33 — 30th June 2009.
They have: 31 posts
Joined: Jun 2009
Same thing happen to me, while updating my blog in Blogger it was slow indeed than it used to be.
That was simply because too much traffic on mainstream web sites where users wants to find out what really happened to the King of Pop, the late MJ.
NickD posted this at 00:58 — 28th July 2009.
They have: 56 posts
Joined: May 2009
Sickopedia went down aswell, apparently the first thing millions of people did, upon hearing the news... was to look for sick jokes... lol
benniestark1222 posted this at 03:21 — 7th August 2009.
They have: 16 posts
Joined: Jul 2009
Yeah, that was a huge traffic for the Internet World...
Even in the News, it was soaring in the air. I wonder when is the second day for such a news...
That day, I just decided to stop surfing the net, every site for me is so slow.
Want to join the discussion? Create an account or log in if you already have one. Joining is fast, free and painless! We’ll even whisk you back here when you’ve finished.